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Carlton
Greater Western Sydney
Q1
4.1.25
2.6.18

    Carlton Events

  • 6 mins - Behind, M.Kreuzer
  • 8 mins - Goal, L.Casboult
  • 10 mins - Goal, M.Wright
  • 26 mins - Goal, E.Curnow
  • 30 mins - Goal, D.Cuningham

    Carlton and Greater Western Sydney Events

  • 3 mins - Goal, J.Patton
  • 9 mins - Behind, J.Kelly
  • 12 mins - Behind, D.Shiel
  • 16 mins - Behind, Z.Williams
  • 20 mins - Goal, J.Patton
  • 23 mins - Behind, S.Reid
  • 24 mins - Behind, S.Johnson
  • 27 mins - Behind, T.Greene
Q2
7.4.46
5.8.38

    Carlton Events

  • 5 mins - Goal, B.Gibbs
  • 7 mins - Behind, D.Thomas
  • 17 mins - Goal, D.Cuningham
  • 24 mins - Goal, J.Silvagni
  • 26 mins - Behind, K.Simpson
  • 28 mins - Behind, B.Gibbs

    Carlton and Greater Western Sydney Events

  • 9 mins - Goal, J.Cameron
  • 11 mins - Goal, C.Ward
  • 14 mins - Goal, T.Taranto
  • 19 mins - Rushed Behind
  • 22 mins - Behind, T.Scully
Q3
8.7.55
7.9.51

    Carlton Events

  • 6 mins - Behind, L.Casboult
  • 9 mins - Behind, C.Curnow
  • 11 mins - Goal, M.Kreuzer
  • 24 mins - Rushed Behind

    Carlton and Greater Western Sydney Events

  • 2 mins - Goal, L.Whitfield
  • 18 mins - Behind, L.Whitfield
  • 20 mins - Goal, M.de Boer
Q4
10.11.71
9.16.70

    Carlton Events

  • 7 mins - Goal, J.Lamb
  • 9 mins - Rushed Behind
  • 14 mins - Goal, M.Wright
  • 15 mins - Rushed Behind
  • 26 mins - Behind, L.Casboult
  • 26 mins - Behind, Z.Fisher

    Carlton and Greater Western Sydney Events

  • 1 mins - Behind, J.Kelly
  • 5 mins - Goal, D.Shiel
  • 6 mins - Behind, T.Greene
  • 10 mins - Behind, C.Ward
  • 11 mins - Behind, T.Greene
  • 18 mins - Goal, D.Shiel
  • 20 mins - Rushed Behind
  • 21 mins - Behind, T.Greene
  • 23 mins - Behind, T.Greene

Scorers

Carlton
Greater Western Sydney
Goal Scorers Carlton Greater Western Sydney
Goals and Behinds Cuningham (2.0), Wright (2.0), Casboult (1.2), Gibbs (1.1), Kreuzer (1.1), Curnow (1.0), Lamb (1.0), Silvagni (1.0), Curnow (0.1), Fisher (0.1), Simpson (0.1), Thomas (0.1) Shiel (2.1), Patton (2.0), Ward (1.1), Whitfield (1.1), Cameron (1.0), de Boer (1.0), Taranto (1.0), Greene (0.5), Kelly (0.2), Johnson (0.1), Reid (0.1), Scully (0.1), Williams (0.1)

Team Statistics

Carlton
Greater Western Sydney

Statistics

Carlton Greater Western Sydney
Goals 10 9
Behinds 11 16
Scoring shots 21 30
Goals/scoring shots 48 30
Disposals 359 388
CarltonGoal Scorers
Players D K M H CP T FF FA HO CL
L.Casboult 12 6 5 6 7 1 1 1 6 0
P.Cripps 21 6 1 15 12 5 2 0 0 4
D.Cuningham 19 8 5 11 10 1 0 1 0 1
C.Curnow 9 4 3 5 6 4 1 1 0 0
E.Curnow 18 10 5 8 6 3 1 1 0 1
S.Docherty 35 25 12 10 5 5 1 1 0 1
Z.Fisher 12 5 2 7 7 1 0 0 0 0
B.Gibbs 27 15 6 12 11 4 1 1 0 5
L.Jones 14 11 8 3 4 3 0 1 0 0
M.Kreuzer 21 15 6 6 12 8 5 1 33 3
J.Lamb 15 10 4 5 4 0 1 1 0 0
C.Marchbank 18 13 7 5 7 4 1 0 0 0
M.Murphy 30 16 9 14 8 1 0 1 0 3
L.Plowman 10 5 7 5 4 1 0 0 0 0
A.Silvagni 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
J.Silvagni 10 8 2 2 5 3 2 1 0 0
K.Simpson 20 9 4 11 5 2 1 0 0 0
L.Sumner 9 6 0 3 2 1 0 1 0 0
D.Thomas 19 12 8 7 6 2 1 0 0 1
J.Weitering 14 11 6 3 1 2 1 3 0 1
T.Williamson 10 5 2 5 5 1 1 1 0 1
M.Wright 16 14 5 2 5 2 2 1 0 2
Greater Western SydneyGoal Scorers
Players D K M H CP T FF FA HO CL
J.Cameron 11 8 6 3 3 3 0 3 0 0
A.Corr 17 9 5 8 5 2 1 0 0 1
P.Davis 13 4 6 9 4 1 0 1 0 0
M.de Boer 17 6 6 11 5 6 0 1 0 0
T.Greene 23 14 10 9 12 5 2 2 0 2
H.Himmelberg 9 7 1 2 2 2 3 0 0 0
S.Johnson 17 10 6 7 3 3 1 1 0 1
J.Kelly 29 10 1 19 9 10 0 2 0 6
M.Kennedy 18 10 3 8 6 5 1 1 0 3
S.Mumford 12 3 3 9 3 7 0 3 30 3
J.Patton 10 6 3 4 4 1 1 0 0 0
H.Perryman 7 3 3 4 4 3 0 0 0 1
S.Reid 11 4 2 7 4 1 0 2 0 1
T.Scully 25 9 3 16 11 2 1 1 0 2
H.Shaw 25 17 9 8 6 1 0 0 0 0
D.Shiel 32 18 3 14 11 4 2 0 0 8
T.Taranto 9 3 1 6 4 4 2 1 0 1
A.Tomlinson 13 5 2 8 5 0 0 2 0 0
C.Ward 26 14 6 12 9 1 0 0 0 7
L.Whitfield 29 11 10 18 10 5 2 1 0 4
Z.Williams 18 14 2 4 2 1 0 0 0 1
N.Wilson 17 11 4 6 1 2 1 1 0 0

Match Details

Carlton
Greater Western Sydney
START TIME
3:20PM
WEATHER
Mostly clear
VENUE
Etihad Stadium
Umpires
Robert Findlay, Jeff Dalgleish, Robert O'Gorman, Mathew Nicholls
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Carlton v GWS: Blues lead at every break and hang on to stun Giants in one-point thriller

CARLTON 4.1 7.4 8.7 10.11 (71)
GREATER WESTERN SYDNEY
2.6 5.8 7.9 9.16 (70)
Goals: Carlton:
D Cuningham 2 M Wright 2 B Gibbs E Curnow J Lamb J Silvagni L Casboult M Kreuzer. Greater Western Sydney: D Shiel 2 J Patton 2 C Ward J Cameron L Whitfield M De Boer T Taranto.
Umpires: Jeff Dalgleish, Robert Findlay, Mathew Nicholls, Robert O'Gorman.
Venue: Etihad Stadium.

Second last beat second. By a point. A day after the bottom team beat a top eight side, in this ridiculous season, this result should have been predictable.

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Carlton pip Giants by slimmest of margins

There was a massive difference between the two teams on the ladder but it appeared no one had told the Blues that as they held on in a tight finish.

But there was nothing predictable about Carlton winning, or about Liam Jones starring for the Blues and Toby Greene missing five shots at goal for GWS. 

The Blues didn't win by outgunning the Giants; they won because they stopped them from scoring. 

Carlton only kicked three goals in the second half. They had just 41 inside-50s to 56. They lost clearances by 20. But defensively, this was a superb victory. 

Jones, for so long a whipping boy up forward, returned to this Carlton side as a defender, and aside from losing big Giants forward Jon Patton in play  to permit Patton the first goal of the game, he played well in his new role. In fact, he was an architect of Carlton's victory. He read the play well and attacked the ball in the air better than the Giants' forwards.

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Alex Silvagni was out of the game early with a knee injury, which multiplied the pressure on the other defenders. Lachie Plowman partly subdued Toby Greene, and in part Greene did the work by his inaccuracy. Greene again had the chance in the last quarter to be the player to win the game but this day his five behinds were  a telling indicator of where the game  was lost.

No player on the ground was better than Sam Docherty, who was superb in running out of the Blues' defence. Soon a team will realise that stopping Docherty's creative run is a good idea.

Matthew Kreuzer was excellent all day in his 150th game. He missed a couple of regular set shots he should have kicked but he booted one and more importantly it was his soccer kick off the ground – a deliberate toe poke that carried 40 metres – in the last quarter that gave the goal that punished the Giants' early quarter misses and set up the margin to give the Blues some breathing space.

Football has a perverse humour. Levi Casboult, the man with the once-flukey foot who had not missed a set shot for five weeks, now missed a shot early then had the ball in his hands late to kick the goal to put his side back in front. He missed. The scores were level. Fisher soon after gave them their one point lead and with two minutes and eight seconds on the clock they held on.

 GWS had more of everything early except goals –  clearances, inside-50s, contested ball and behinds. Both sides wanted to be fast and aggressive in moving the ball and consequently sought out players in high risk-high reward positions. 

Carlton's second goal came from just such a kick across goal by Tom Scully to open the play but Levi Casboult's finger tips  denied  him and created  the goal for Matthew Wright. Ordinarily turnovers indicate skill errors but some of these turnovers were forgivable because they were the product of an attempt to be creative. The skill errors  were born of aggressive ball use and Carlton pressure.

 In the first half, Carlton  absorbed  three Giants goals in five minutes and rallied to recover the lead by  scoring from the Giants' errors. Every one of their first seven goals was kicked from a Giants turnover. They needed to be because around each stoppage the Giants were winning the ball, getting     their hands on the ball first from the clearances.  So Carlton's   game had to be built on winning it back in the field.

At half-time there was a sense that with so many of the numbers weighing heavily in GWS's favour it would be a matter of attrition and the Giants would prevail.

Yet it didn't occur. Most numbers began to even out except clearances – GWS routinely won the ball but then Carlton won it back in play.

Carlton was able to do in the third term what they had not in the first half, they kept the ball inside their forward 50 and GWS could find few avenues out. 

Giants captain Phil Davis was on one leg but he stayed on the ground – literally, for he could not jump – and filled space if nothing else.